Direct from Violent J.....it's the Hatchet Herald!

Holy shit y’all! "Behind The Paint Super Deluxe Mega Watt Gold Stamp Version!" That’s what we might as well call the audiobook version that we've been working on. Peep this shit out. I’m reading the book into the microphone, right? But I'm ad-libbing mad shit and adding all kinds of info to the stories. I'm like expanding on everything and also giving updates on the people we mention in the book, like telling whatever happened to them, or where they are now. It’s so fuckin’ crazy dope. For fans of “Behind The Paint,” this is the ultimate version of that book, and all you gotta do is lay back and listen to it on USB plugs. You can plug it into your iPad, computer, phone, tablet or just about anything. And by the time we’re finished, this bitch will be something like 20-hours long. Some chapters take me an hour to read because I’m ad-libbing so much extra information that’s not in the original book. And check this out -- when we talk about a certain rapper from back in the day or something that influenced us, we take a break and play some of that rapper’s music so you can hear what were talking about.

Another example -- there was this crazy fresh radio DJ in Detroit way back in the day who was unlike any other DJ in the world. He would talk all slow and deep for a mad long time between each song and he always said the freshest shit. At first he was on 98.7, which is a rap and R&B station, and his show would come on at like midnight, and he would play whatever the fuck he wanted. He'd suddenly play Led Zeppelin on an R&B station! He played so much crazy shit. He got fired from 98.7 and he would suddenly be on 107.5, doing the same shit. Nobody ever knew what he looked like or ever saw him. He was mad mysterious but he ended up being on just about every station in Detroit. Anyway, we loved him and we talk about him in the book and yup, all the sudden you can hear a clip of him talkin’. That’s what makes the audio version so dope, is you get to hear everything we're talking about. I read a chapter a day, unless we got something else going on that day, but when I’m done reading the chapter, Young Wicked adds all kinds of crazy fresh sound affects and he adds echoes to certain words to emphasize them. It’s just really, really fuckin’ dope y’all. In fact, since “Behind The Paint” was such a success, I'm gonna go ahead and say that the audiobook, which we're calling "The Story of ICP and the 6 Jokers Cards" is one of the freshest products Psychopathic Records has ever produced. It don’t come out until Gathering 17 (floor rumbles) and you ninjas are gonna fuckin’ love it to death. You and your crew can just listen to the story straight from the horse’s mouth all the way home. SO DOPE!

As far as Juggalo Weekend goes YOU FUCKED UP! YOU FUCKED UP! Both nights are sold out clean, but because I'm the motherfuckin’ Duke Of The Wicked, I happen to have the inside word ... The word is that on the week of the shows, Harpo's is puttin 200 extra tickets on sale. That's the word I'm hearing. So you might still have a chance to catch the epic return of Esham and ICP at Harpo's and The Wicked Clowns are performing “The Ringmaster” album in its entirety. Can you fuckin’ believe that shit? Did you really think these shows weren’t gonna sell out? This is fuckin’ Detroit! The home of the Wicked Shit! Esham and ICP back together on the same show is like the fuckin’ Beatles reuniting around here, man. The only stale thing about the Killjoy Club show on Friday, February 19 at St. Andrew’s is that, well of course Koopsta passed away, God rest his soul, and Crunchy Black is still locked up so that fuckin’ sucks. But DJ Paul, ICP and Young Wicked will all be in the house tearin' shit up, believe that, buddy!

Also at the Feb 19th, Killjoy Club show at St. Andrew's Hall you got Eazy-E's son Lil E, with NWA's DJ Yella, Mastamind, Lil Wyte and Tha Have Knots (ABK, Big Hoodoo, and Bonez Dubb) Plus doors open early so you can come inside the warm venue and check out a full show of JCW Wrestling!

On Feb 20th at Harpo's Concert Hall is The Ringmaster Show with ICP & Esham plus you’re gonna see Molly Gruesome, Swag Toof, King 810, Young Wicked, DJ Paul and fuckin' Mushroomhead. The shit is crazy fuckin’ doooope!

Ninjas on the West side! Don’t forget to come check me! Violent J, with my hype man Young Wicked for my solo charity tour! All proceeds go straight to St. John's Children's Hospital of Illinois. I'm gonna be slaughtering shit with classic ICP jams all night long. And I'm even playing a show for the infamous 505 Juggalos right in the heart of Albuquerque, a city ICP has been banned from for about 10 fuckin' years! And joining me and Young Wicked for this trail of distruction is Compton's own Lil’ E and the super sexy Nova Rockafeller (but she's bringin' her boyfriend with her. Boooooo!!!!).

Seriously though, we need you ninjas help. We need you to come out for a bomb ass cause. These kids are sick. Let’s show the world how dope Juggalos really are. This is the last time I'm gonna ever be doing a solo tour, too, so come on out and catch this ultra rare show and have a mad good time with us, please. Do it for the kids, man! For the kids, yo!

Next Hatchet Herald, I’m gonna tell you ninjas all about my brother Jumpsteady's new deck building, Juggalo card game, "INTO THE ECHO SIDE" and about the dope illustrations done by the amazing Tom Wood. You should be poppin’ wood right now just from hearing about how dope this game is. But more on this freshness next episode.

DO NOT FORGET TO GO TO THE BRAND NEW WWW.JUGGALOGATHERING.COM RIGHT NOW AND WET YOUR DAMN PANTIES BECAUSE THE COMMERCIAL ALONE WILL GIVE YOU CHILLS FROM THE BACK OF YOUR NECK, DOWN YOUR SPINE, INTO YOUR BUTTCRACK, ACROSS YOUR ITCH AND UP YOUR NUTS AND OUT YOUR DICK HOLE!

And now some very personal news from my life...

Some ninjas might find this message sad but I can assure you there is no reason to be upset. I'll just come right out and say it – Sweet Sugar Slam and I are no longer romantically connected. As of this past month or so, we have officially separated. But here is the good news: We strongly remain the very best of friends. Much like Shaggy and I, Michelle is my better half and will always be. Our relationship was anything but a waste of time. We produced two incredible, amazing and beautiful children that we will continue to raise together as a super team. We're separated as lovers but we're connected in life forever. We continue to watch movies and crash at each other's houses as well as take our kids out to dinner, movies, wrestling, whatever the fuck we wanna do. We will always hold a deep love and respect for each other forever. No matter who I might become involved with in the future, Michelle will forever come first as she is my babies’ mama, best friend and partner in this life.

Sugar Slam has done so much great shit in the name of Juggalettes. She cares deeply about all of her Twitter friends and we both ask that all Juggalos, please, PLEASE when you talk to us or see us anywhere, PLEASE do not say, "Sorry to hear about you guys breaking up," because to us, there is nothing to be sorry about. We're moving on and watching each other's backs as we do it. If anybody out there in this cruel world were ever to fuck with Sugar Slam, the entire Psychopathic Records team would kidnap them, tie them up, and very slowly twist their head off their body.

Of course, Sugar Slam will continue to help us in the studio with her amazing singing abilities and there will even be a Sugar Slam album coming in the future, produced by yours truly and Young Wicked. She will always and forever host our infomercials and continue her fresh ass charity work and all the good shit she has always done at Psychopathic. Nothing will change. Her radio show "Sugar Slam's Rock It or Sock It Video Review" with Kuma on PsychopathicRadio.com will continue and she will keep right on appearing on “The Juggalo Show.” She officially is the first female ever on Psychopathic Records and will always be looked at and treated as a queen by all of us here at the Hatchet. Her incredible voice has appeared on multiple albums by Dark Lotus, The Psychopathic Rydas, ICP and just about every artist on the label. She is brilliant and multi-talented and Juggalos really have no idea how many of the products and events put on by Psychopathic Records come from the mind of Sugar Slam – the toy drives, the canned food drives, the charity tours, etc. She has a heart as big as a beach ball and she's hotter than a fat kid’s car seat after a three-hour drive.

Now that we're technically just friends, I could only hope that means we're friends with benefits, but that’s not likely. That's our business though. She's awesome. Her body is beautiful but there's no need for me to get all into that, although if I could, I would LOVE to tell you ninjas all about it. But due to my respect for her I can’t do it here in public. I will say this though for you male ninjas out there and females into other females -- you have to know that naked … Sugar Slam is a fuckin' perfect 10. There, I said it. And I've already said too much.

I’m writing this whole thing because as you ninjas know, ICP has always had an open relationship with the Juggalos. We're honest about most of the goings on in our world and we tell y’all pretty much everything. Plus everyday, ninjas everywhere always ask me, "How’s Sugar Slam and the family, bro?" And I just figured I'd let everybody know what was up. Sugar Slam even has some comments of her own about the matter. Here they are...

Hey y'all! Michelle Bruce a.k.a Sweet Sugar Slam here to share a few thoughts with a people I care very deeply for. Joe Bruce and I have indeed decided to separate. Now, before you take that term as a negative, or think of it as some sort of an end, please believe it is quite the opposite. We had and still will always have a deep love and respect for one another. We've formed a connection so tight for well over a decade, and it will continue until the earth can no longer handle the weight of its strength. This is not a sorrowful time in life for either of us. When you find a partner in life, a ride or die, a true, real, in every sense of that overused word, you keep that shit, and you nourish it. Feed it with love, laughter, and friendship. We are the parents to JJ Bruce and Ruby Bruce, the only children there will ever be from our blood for eternity. We will continue as we have through this life, together always, as best friends and confidants. I and he will come first in each other’s eyes, and if anybody has a problem with that, they will have to take a seat, sit real long and hard, close their eyes, and ponder on life until they learn what the word BOND means. Psychopathic is a part of me and shit ain’t changing with any of it. When it comes down to it, every single one of you reading this gives me the strength and passion to do what I do. I respect this empire that was built on hard work, dedication, drive, and ultimate imagination. This is why it’s important for me to share this as my life. It will never change. I’m a grown ass woman and Joe Bruce is a grown ass man and this decision was made together, for the better of the souls we bear inside of us. So no sad emojis, no apologies, and definitely no pity. JB & MB, VJ & SS will neva die, muthafuckas! I love y'all. Thanks for reading, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T is what it means to me.

-SweetSugarSlam

In other flava…

Juggalo Weekend Traveler’s Guide

We know ninjas will be coming from all over the world to experience the freshness of this year’s Juggalo Weekend celebration. Day Two of the festivities will be held at Harpo’s Concert Hall on the East Side of Detroit, where ICP will be performing “The Ringmaster” in its entirety, plus Esham, Young Wicked, Swag Toof and others will be flipping your wig.

Here’s the thing, though. There’s no getting around it—Harpo’s is located in a crazy ass neighborhood. The venue is dope as fuck and has a long and glorious history as one of Detroit’s best live music spots, but it’s smack dab in a really bad part of the city. Ain’t gonna front—we don’t want you ninjas staying in any hotels within walking distance of Harpo’s. All kinds of crazy criminal shit goes on after dark in that area and we don’t want any Juggalos getting roughed up or hurt before or after the show.

So are some recommendations for Metro Detroit-area hotels that are located in some not-quite-as-sketchy neighborhoods. Actually, there are plenty of Downtown Detroit hotels, like at the casinos and shit, but the problem is those places are EXPENSIVE AS FUCK! So these hotels are not only safer but most rooms should be under $100.

One more thing about Harpo’s—WE ARE HIRING EXTRA SECURITY GUARDS TO PATROL THE PARKING LOT ON THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW! This is to ensure everyone’s safety and to make sure no one fucks with your car and shit. So just lock your car up, and head to the venue and if anyone tries to fuck with you, just holler for the nearest security officer, who should be nearby.

Get ready for the ringmaster show with the fresh new hatchet gear line!Be sure and hit up hatchet gear this weekend to peep all the new gear celebrating the almighty leader of the dark carnival! And by the way…we got in more of those fresh ass varsity jackets that you’ve been asking about for a while now! Check it!

23 Jan2016

Direct from Psyshopathic.....it's the Hatchet Herald!

Whaddup, fam? This is your homie J-Webb with this week’s edition of the wickedest newsletter on the dirt ball…the Hatchet Herald. Normally, Violent J writes these but he’s down in the studio right now working on some new flavor and continuing to record the audiobook version of “Behind The Paint,” which will be crackin yer skull at Gathering 17! Speakin as a Juggalo, I can’t WAIT to hear this masterpiece when it’s done! It’s filled with dope ass sound effects, background beats, special guest appearances and all kinds of flavor! I love to play an audiobook on my iPhone while driving to Psychopathic in my hooptie each morning, but most audiobooks simply have some ninja reading the text out loud with no extra flavor. But as you might expect, Violent J’s audiobook is ANYTHING but ordinary! It’s almost more like one of those old timey radio shows that they used to play in the 1940s, like “The Shadow” or “Inner Sanctum” (YouTube that shit; it may be old as fuck but some of those old radio dramas they used to do were dope!). So you’re definitely gonna wanna grab this baby on USB drive when it drops at Gathering 17 this July.

In current news though, let’s get to the real flavor: TICKETS FOR GATHERING 17 ARE NOW ON SALE AT WWW.JUGGALOGATHERING.COM! Tickets and passes went on sale on January 17 and within ONE HOUR of going on sale, all the Big Balla sites had been sold out. The Psychopathic All-Star Experience, which gets ninjas admission into a special backstage party with ICP and the entire Hatchet roster, also sold out in record time. I was in touch with Jumpsteady and Mean Dean via phone on the night tickets went on sale, and all three of us were just like “HOLY SHIT!” The Gathering site was CLOGGED AS FUCK for almost three hours while Juggalos were scrambling to get those Balla sites and tickets. We’re sorry to everyone who missed out on getting a Balla site or All-Star Experience, but you gotta be fast, ninjas! Especially since this is motherfuckin GATHERING 17, baybeeee!!! The number 17 has long been sacred in the Dark Carnival universe and something tells me this year is going to be *THE* Gathering by which all future Gatherings will be measured. So if you haven’t gotten your tickets yet for this year’s Juggalo family reunion, ya better get on that shit because you DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS ONE!! Jumpsteady is working day and night on booking the best musical acts in the universe (Mad props to Jumpsteady—he is one of the hardest working, most dedicated ninjas I’ve ever met. For real) to perform at Gathering 17 but we DO know that our homies Twiztid, Blaze, ABK, Big Hoodoo, and Young Wicked will be there. And unless you’ve been living in a fallout shelter for the last few months, you already know that this year, at Gathering 17, there will be THE VERY FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE OF VIOLENT J’s CLASSIC CONCEPT ALBUM, “WIZARD OF THE HOOD!!” This is Juggalo HISTORY in the making, friends! If that doesn’t make you want to get tickets now, you must not have a pulse. www.juggalogathering.com!

In more immediate news, tickets and VIP passes for Violent J’s Solo Charity Tour are now on sale at www.psychopathicrecords.com/tour-dates. This tour promises to be one of the freshest tours Psychopathic has embarked on for a while. First, all proceeds go to help the little patients of St. John’s Children’s Hospital of Illinois and giving to others is one of the things that our Juggalo family celebrates loudly and proudly. Secondly, Violent J will be touring in cities that haven’t seen an ICP show in a long ass time, like Seattle and one of our biggest Clown Towns…Denver, baby! And joining J on this trek is the prince of gangsta rap…Lil’ Eazy-E, who will be performing hits and classic from his late daddy Eazy-E. Also on board is the amazing, talented, and beautiful Nova Rockafeller, who totally fuckin schooled the Gathering stage last year and has achieved a great deal of underground acclaim with jams like “Batman” and “The 90s.” So get to www.psychopathicrecords.com/tour-dates (or click below) and GET THOSE TICKETS FOR VIOLENT J’s SOLO CHARITY TOUR, which kicks off in Seattle on March 14!

Also, don’t forget to get your VIP meet-n-greet package at Hatchet Gear and kick it with the Duke of the Wicked before the show! Show up an hour before doors open, get let in early, and enjoy some one-on-one time with that lovable serial killin clown, Violent J! VIP packages can be picked up here: http://www.hatchetgear.com/violent-j-tour

Finally, just a quick FYI—Juggalo Weekend is TOTALLY 100% SOLD THA FUCK OUT! Both days! SOLD OUT! We’ll see you in a few weeks where the world will witness the very first full concert set from The Killjoy Club and the Insane Clown Posse will perform the almighty 2nd Joker’s Card “The Ringmaster” in its entirety!

Until then, Juggalos, mad clown love to all of you, stay safe, stay fresh, and thank you for running with the hatchet!

Peace,

J-Webb

08 Jan2016

Jumpsteady’s Journal

What up, muddafackos!

As you may know, we have a lot of new flavor in the works up here at Psychopathic Records that we are excited about as we get things poppin’ for the new year! For those ninjas that were able to get their hands on ICP’s “Phantom X-Tra Spooky Edition” CD you have already seen the ads showcasing some of this upcoming flavor. I want to take a moment to talk to you about one of these projects that I have been personally working on that has me hyped as fuck…and that is the Juggalo card game known as Into the Echoside!!!

For those of you who don’t know, I have been an avid gamer since I was in elementary school and have played everything from Dungeons & Dragons to Pokemon and everything in-between. Since my childhood I have been directly involved in the creation of several games including the Pendulum Roleplaying Game (which you can still find online), Morton’s List and Quest for Shangri-La all of which I am very proud of and consider to be a part of my life’s work. To me there is no greater joy on this planet than gaming and creating games and that is why it has been my immense privilege and joy to have been able to spend the last several months creating this card game for our Juggalo family.

Before I get into what the card game is I wanted to give props to my friend Louis Simpson who I met while doing EMS and is a now a close friend of mine, because it was his idea of doing this card game in the first place. Together we have put our collective 50+ years of gaming experience to the test (along with valued insight from our nerdy crew) to devise the dopest game we could conceive. I also want to thank the motherfuckin’ Don Mega of all artists to ever grace the planet who has more than enthusiastically joined us as the 3rd member of our creative team…. none other than Tom Wood!!! His artwork, which is featured above (and is the box cover), speaks for itself! He is working his magic daily to bring everything to life with straight up master pieces of art that have been flipping our wigs into the stratosphere on spiraling trails of twinkling stardust and flame! When I tell you we have the best team to make this the dopest game ever…I do not boast.

OK, so what is it and how do you play? Into the Echoside is what has become commonly known in the gaming industry as a deck building game. Over the past four years or so these games have become very popular in the gaming world and are extremely fun and addictive to play. In a nutshell, everyone who is playing starts off with a small deck of cards that provide various resources. Then through the course of the game, players will obtain more and more powerful cards to add to their deck making it stronger so they can achieve the highest level of power necessary to win the game. Into the Echoside is a Juggalo version of a deck building game where players delve into the deepest levels of the Nethervoid, gain allies from some of the most notable characters in the Juggalo universe and fight creatures of infinite evil to aid them in their quest to halt the evil that threatens to consume the mortal realm!

Into the Echoside features game play and a theme that is unique to any other deck building game. It includes everything you need to play including a game board, 12-sided die, rulebook and over 220 cards that pay homage to everything Juggalos love. There are 6 different types of cards in the game (Dark Carnival, Psychopathic, Underground, Item, Fiend and Epic) each one representing a person, character, song or thing from the Juggalo world. There are such cards as Juggalos, Moon Glorious, Vera Lee, Mr. White Suit, The Riddle Box, Rude Boy, DJ Clay, Psychopathic Rydas, Whitney Peyton, Kottonmouth Kings, Boondox, Jamie Madrox, Black Eyed Children, Murder Cloak, Chuck the Chainsaw, Cartoon Nightmares, Mr. Rotten Treats and Boogie Man just to name a very very few! Players will have the opportunity to wield the powers bestowed upon them by some of their favorite artists and characters!

Each game takes less than an hour to play, is meant for 2-4 players of ages 13 and up and will retail for around $40-$45. The game will be released at the Gathering of the Juggalos this year making it available for the first time on July 20, 2016. There will also be a promo pack of 3 cards (Wizard of the Hood, Hatchetman and Inner City Posse) that you can only obtain if you purchase the game during its presale (details to come at a later date) or if you purchase the game at the Gathering itself! If you want to check out the developing website dedicated to the game you can check it out here www.intotheechoside.com

In closing I want to add that we have been playtesting this game for a while now and I can say with extreme confidence that I am very happy with the play of the game. It is so engaging that whenever I do play test it, I quickly forget about everything else and am just trying to formulate my strategies so I can win. I am so proud of this game and it has been so rewarding to be able to be a part of a such a talented team who are creating something so uniquely entertaining for our family. This has been one of my most personally rewarding projects I have ever worked on at Psychopathic Records.

Also for those attending the Gathering this year, we will have a demonstration tent set up for those who wish to playtest Into the Echoside and learn firsthand how to play. Tournaments for the game will also be included in the Dark Carnival Games Con (DCG CON) that will be taking place toward the later part of this year to find out who will be the best of the best. This is a good time indeed for Juggalo gamers but even if you don’t consider yourself a gamer, give this one a try when you have the chance. You may just be surprised at how addictive this game can be. So until the Gathering the only question that remains is….

Do you dare delve into the deepest levels of the Nethervoid?

08 Jan2016

Direct from Violent J.....it's the Hatchet Herald!

Happy fuckin’ holidays y’all. I hope y’all got all the shit you wanted. I hope your woman gave you some warm holiday skins and your moms cooked you juicy ass ham bones and all that good shit. I sincerely hope y’all had a good ass time. I got some fresh news for y’all to kick off 2016. The first thing y’all should know is that 2016 is all about "The New" – new flavor, new antics, new tactics, new products, new new new! That’s this years theme. I'll get into some new flavor in a minute, first let me talk about Juggalo Day weekend, February 19th at St. Andrews Hall and Feb 20th at Harpo's Concert Hall both in Detroit Murderous. First off February 19th, at St. Andrew's Hall is ALL SOLD OUT. The main act that night is the first ever full performance of The Killjoy Club. We just hope everything goes smooth and Crunchy Black gets outta jail in time like he's supposed to because if he don't then we're gonna have to have Lil Wyte take his place and do his lines. But like I said, he's supposed to be outta jail well before then so unless he beats somebody down or gets caught raping a butt or something we should be all good. Also on the sold out show at St. Andrew's all is the son of Eazy E himself, Lil’ E along with DJ Yella from NWA performing a dope ass set of Eazy-E classics. Plus earlier in the day is a whole card from JCW wrestling which is gonna be awesome. There will be many, many more acts added to the line up at the St. Andrew's Hall show but we're still puttin’ the flavor together.

The very next night at Harpo's Concert Hall on Febuary 20th is the big one. That motherfucker is headlined by ICP performing The 2nd Joker's Card “The Ringmaster” in its entirety. Plus, also on the show together with ICP for the first time in many, many years Esham The Unholy will be killing it on stage. Also, just added to this already massive show is the band whose energy ignites riots almost every time they play, I'm talkin' about King 810! That’s right! Just peep out one of their videos on You Tube and I'll bet you end up destroying your own bedroom for no reason. Also on this show causing mass pandemonium being announced here for the very first time is Mushroomhead! And performing for the very first time in Detroit Murderous is none other than Molly Gruesome! Now I have to be honest, you’re chances of landing some tickets to this show are pretty slim because no lie, there are less than 200 tickets left to this show and we DO NOT expect those tickets to last much longer so if you wanna have any kind of chance of seeing this incredibly fresh show, I wouldn't even wait until finishing reading this Hatchet Herald, you should just drop what you’re doing right now and try to scoop up them tickets! Juggalo Weekend in Detroit 2016 will be NO HOE.

Now I wanna talk about the fresh charity tour that went out last December that featured JCW and a whole bunch of groups including yours truly doing a solo set along with my brother Jumpsteady as my hype man. The tour was cool enough and all that, but flat out, we just weren’t happy with the draw. Tickets went on sale way too late number one, and number two, it was mainly billed as a JCW show first and a concert second and JCW just doesn’t really usually draw that well. Plus, it was right before Christmas and ninjas just didn’t have hardly any money to spare even to help out the kids to the St. Johns Children's Hospital of Illinois. So even though I said I would never do another solo show again after this tour, the fact is, I LIED. We are doing more dates, this time on the west coast. We’re talking the tour all the way over to the other side of the country and this time the line up is different and it’s a full concert with no JCW wrestling. The line up is as follows. First off, two local openers from each city will grace the stage doing their thing in front of their home town crowd. Then it’s time for the super hottie with the slammin' sounds herself Nova Rockafeller to take the stage and blow shit up into dust particles. After the venue has been destroyed and all that’s left is the stage and the sound system in the middle of an open field with a crowd of Juggalos standing there, yours truly, Violent J, will take the stage this time performing a full set of Juggalo classics. Yes, ninjas! We're just not satisfied with the money we made the kids of St. John’s Children's Hospital, so we’re gonna get out there and earn some more and hopefully when we’re through, we will be bringin' home a fat bag of loot for those sick kids. Thank you to all the acts and the wrestlers that performed on the first charity tour and thank you to all the ninjas who came out and supported the cause, but the simple fact is, there is just more work to be done. These last few rare and exiting Violent J tour dates are as follows...

Mon., March 14 – Seattle,WA

Tue., March 15 – Portland, OR

Thurs., March 17 – Salt Lake City, UT

Fri., March 18 – Grand Juction, CO

Sat., March 19 – Denver, CO

Sun., March 20 – Albuquerque, NM

Mon., March 21 – Phoenix, AZ

Wed., March 23 – Las Vegas, NV

Thurs., March 24 – Los Angeles, CA

Fri., March 25 – Oakland, CA

There will also be a $50 Meet and Greet available in case you want pictures or some shit autographed by The Duke of the Wicked with all profits going straight to the kids of St. John's Children's Hospital of Illinois. Now, of course, Shaggy would normally be joining me on this tour but the plan is to wrap and tape him up good for the Juggalo Weekend shows so he can get through those in one piece and then let him continue to heal up 100 percent so that when we launch the mighty RiddleBox Tour in May he will be perfectly ready to THROW DOWN all across the country AS WELL AS FINALLY FINALLY INVADING CANADA!!

Now we got some NEW flavor to tell you about. If you've ever read and enjoyed the book “Behind The Paint,” now you can check it out again, this time with additional flavor added to it! And check this out, you ain’t even gotta read it! You can just lean your big ass head back and close your eyes and hear it all as its TOLD TO YOU because finally, after more than 10 fuckin' years, it’s coming out in audiobook form! That’s right, you can listen to the entire story of our childhoods all the way up to the release of the first 6 Joker's Cards including the previously untold story of “Hell’s Pit” as told by me, Violent J myself, when this bad boy is released at Gathering 17! What better way to spend the long ass car ride back home than to sit and listen to the entire story of ICP being told straight outta the horse’s motherfuckin big ass mouth! This special audiobook will be released on USB as well as through download. It’s not coming out on CD though because that would be like 12 CDs or some shit and that’s just too many. Plus hardly anybody buys CDs anymore anyway.

The truth of the matter is we at Psychopathic have many many, super cool products coming out this year. That’s why the official theme of this year is NEW. But we can’t tell you about them all just yet but each and every Hatchet Herald we promise to reveal more and more awesome flavor you would never expect us to put out. Just a hint -- we've got not one but TWO brand new ICP documentaries coming out this year that are gonna fry your brain piece. Plus we got a new book comin' out and all kind of exiting shit. The funny thing is that ninjas think they know all there is to know about The Wicked Clowns but the truth is there is so, so much more to tell you that we have to slowly let bits of flavor out so you don’t overdose and explode right in your shoes. Speaking of new flavor, I’m gonna let my brother Jumpsteady tell you about something we got coming out that is ultra fuckin’ devastating and will provide you and your crew with hours and hours of endless entertainment. Rob, let these fools know what time it is on that new new you got coming out...

05 Dec2015

Direct from Violent J.....it's the Hatchet Herald!

Hatchet Herald

What up doe? You aint gonna believe this flavor! Remember last issue I was tellin you ninjas all about the RassleRap Charity Tour that we're doing to hook up the sick kids of St. John's Children's Hospital of Illinois? Remember how I told you that 2 local acts from every stop on the tour was going to perform along with the one and only Young Wicked? Well, that's all still true, only mad more flavor has been added! MAD MORE!!! The tour is now fatter. Much fatter! Like it's been stuffin' its fat fuckin' face with chocolate Twinkies! It seems the holiday spirit is spreading and we received several calls from absolute powerhouses in the rap world who wanted to be on this tour and help hook up the kids! Now the tour not only features 2 local acts from each city, plus 5 exciting and brutal JCW Matches and a hype ass, slammin' set from Psychopathic's hottest act in years Young Wicked, but it also features the Best in the Southwest, The Psychopathic Iconic DJ, Dangerous DJ Clay! And also added to the tour, strictly out of love for the kids, it's The mother fuckin' Louisville Slugger himself, Bukshot! How dope is that shit? And it don't stop there, my friends. Talk about Psychopathic Icons, how does this sound... from the South Bronx of New York City; he's actually my brother-in-law... I'm talkin' about Myzery! And you know Myzery wrecks shop! But there's still more, ninjas! I'm tellin' you all the heavy hitters called and wanted to jump on this tour to lend their support for free! How cool is this shit? Also performing some witchcraft on every stop of the tour, is the witch doctor of Detroit Murderous... Big Hoodoo! It just keeps gettin' liver and fresher! Everybody called and wanted to come out on this tour and support the cause ... for free! And that's why we need you ninjas to come out and show YOUR love. Let’s show the world how fuckin' awesome Juggalos really are! They say we're killers but we're actually saving lives. I'm dead serious about this, y'all! We need your help. We need to pull together. Even if you can’t afford to be an Elf, a Snowman, or a Big Baller Santa Clause (if you don’t know what I'm talkin' about, click here "SCHOOL ME") Just you buying a ticket to this big ass show helps the cause plenty, homie! We need you there to help them kids and that’s why we're making the tour as fat as can be. And we still ain't done stuffin' its fat ass and makin' it even fatter! Because also on the tour is the Hatchet Warrior. How about a fat dose of some Native Funk y'all? That's right, ninjas, also on this incredible tour is Anybody Killlllla!!! Straight Up Murderous!

Before we drop EVEN MORE NAMES, let me run this down right quick: We got 2 local acts from each city that hopefully don't suck, we got 5 bloody ass JCW matches going down, we got The Hatchet's sharpest weapon, Young mother fuckin' Wicked rippin' it down, We got the Southwest bad ass, Deadly DJ Clay, we got big, bad Bukshot in this bad ass bitch, we got the East Coast, serial killa Myzery bustin' out a fat set, we got some Detroit west side wicked shit with Big Hoodoo, and we still ain't even done! We also got the bloodthirsty serial killer herself, direct from SKR Records, the one and only Razakel, who can bring the wicked shit just as hard as anyone in the boys club. Peep the fresh video to her song "Bite Me" if you don't believe me! I swear to God this shit has turned into an indoor Juggalo Festival! No lie. That's exactly what this shit is now. In fact I'm officially changin' the fuckin' name right now. This shit is now called The RassleRap Charity Festival Tour, bitch, know that.

And now I'm about to peel your wig back and slap you on the top of your bald ass head, with even more flavor. I couldn't even believe it when I saw his name callin' my phone. I instantly got nervous. He's one of me and Joey's biggest heroes, and when he told me he wanted to do the tour, I instantly peed my pants a little and passed out. When I woke up, the pee was dry, but then I remembered what he said and I peed and passed out again... I'll just get to it. Joining the RassleRap Charity Festival Tour is... From the motherfuckin' 5th Ward in Houston, Texas... A true pioneer of Horrorcore Rap, from the mother fuckin' Geto Boys ... Willie D!! I'll give you a second to find your wigs ... It probably flew off your head and landed somewhere behind you... did you check in the garbage can?... Maybe the cat took it.... It could still be stuck to the wall back there... Well, you might as well just glue it to your fuckin' dome piece because I've got more news. Yes, Willie D is going to be there performing Geto Boys classics, but your mind is not playing tricks on you, there's still more flavor.

I'll be honest though, there is a big bit of major staleness I have to tell you about, and there is no way to get around it other than to just come out with it. It turns out that Shaggy Shaggs cannot do the tour. He is having emergency back surgery. I know, I know, that fuckin' sucks buttholes. Those of you that follow us closely know that Shaggy has had serious back problems with a fucked up spine ever since he was wrestling in Milwaukee years ago and got slammed off the top of a steel cage. Well, those problems only got worse and worse and now he's finally doing something about it. He's having a Laminectomy/Discectomy for you medical students and doctors reading this, and I'm sure there's LOTS of them out there. The problem is, the only surgery date they could fit him in for right away happens to be on December 11th, dead smack during the tour. But, Ninjas, please don't let this staleness discourage you from coming to see the show. Number 1: We WILL have a life sized, cardboard, cut out stand of Shaggy posted on the stage. Number 2: Don't forget the sick children that need your ticket money and support! All hope is not lost, as the song says, "The Show Must Go On" and it will! You see, there's one more act that’s going to perform on this tour! In fact he's going to headline this bitch! Performing solo for the first time in his entire career and for the absolute last time -- in fact, this 6 city tour will be the ONLY time this ninja will ever perform solo in his lifetime! He's doing it for the kid’s y'all, for the fuckin' kids! Who is it you ask? It's ME!!! Violent J! Yes it's true, I will be performing ICP jams, and some of my solo joints as well, for the first and last and only time in my life. I will have a fresh ass hype man up there with me, though. He's the only ninja capable of standing in for the great Shaggy 2 Dope. If I can't be with my brother up there on stage, then instead I'll be with my brother. My brother from the same mother... Jumpsteady! I'm trying to say that my brother Jumpsteady will be my hype man for these ultra, ULTRA RARE, solo performances. So if you want to see something happen, that will absolutely, positively, never, ever happen again, then come see me perform along with all the above mentioned greats on this massive, indoor festival tour, the now forever legendary RassleRap Charity Festival Tour!!!!! We at Psychopathic Records and the Juggalo underground are proving to this wicked dirt ball that we all live on, that we Juggalos will do WHATEVER it takes to help out the sick and needy kids of St. John's Children's Hospital of Illinois.

And now, some very sad and serious news...

OK. Here it goes. Loooong time Juggalos, I'm talkin' really, really long time Juggalos. Juggalos from way, way, WAY back before the fuckin' internet, and before cellphones and even before DVDs, those long time Juggalos actually remember ICP's first professional release... It was called "The Dog Beats Maxi Single". It was 4 songs recorded at a studio called Miller Midi Productions with a crazy, whacked out ninja named Chuck Miller who I'm assuming took waaay to much LSD during his hippy days. He was cool most of the time with rare, sporadic, evil outburst of anger. He moved slower than a tortoise full of rigor mortis. He pretty much sucked as an engineer.

Anyway we had previously only recorded on a karaoke machine so we didn't know any better. We had a few tapes out. When I say "out" I mean for sale in one store, and we gave them out or sold them for a buck, mostly in Southwest Detroit. One of them was called "Intelligence and Violence" that one was me (the Violent rapper) doing songs with a kid I hardly knew who called himself D Lyrical (he was the intelligent rapper, I guess) We recorded at his mom's house in her basement because he had a karaoke machine. His mom hated me because I cussed so loud when I rapped. When I finally got my own karaoke machine that was the end of D-Lyrical and I started rapping with my real homies Joey (Shaggy), his older brother John (John Kickjazz) and another kid named John Rode (Kid Villain). With them we did a tape called "Basement Cuts", and another one was called "Enter The Ghetto Zone". When we hooked up with our first manager, a ninja named Alex Abbiss, who together with his brother operated the record store that sold our bootleg tapes, we became dead serious about having a career in rap (Remember record stores? Stores full of tapes and CDs and vinyl albums? They we're fuckin' awesome. We used to spend hours in them places. Anyway, don't let me lose focus).

When we walked into that real recording studio (remember those too? Nowadays all you need is a computer and a mic) with our manager, it was on for real. We consider that day the official beginning of ICP's career. That was when we first decided that we were going to "make it" as rappers and failure wasn’t an option. My entire life changed forever that day.

Just after the recording of "Dog Beats" came out, John Rode quit the group. It was too much work for him. Everybody in the group had to get a job and pitch in all our money to the group and work endlessly on handing out flyers and promoting the group. Constantly. And that proved to be too much work for John Rode and he was like "fuck this" and left. And just before we released our first album and 1st Joker's Card "Carnival of Carnage" Shaggy's older brother John quit the group. And I very rarely ever saw either one of the Johns ever again. Our lives completely changed from that first day in the studio. For Joey and I it became all about ICP and only ICP. It was way to much for the Johns and they were outti. We worked like seriously obsessed psychopaths. If you’re interested in more about our struggle and the slow rise of ICP you can read our book "Behind The Paint" (available at HatchetGear.com).

The Johns just weren’t having the extreme change in our lives. They weren’t about all the constant work, work, work. They wanted to party and party they did. What sucked was they fuckin' kept parting harder and harder. They fuckin' partied way to hard. To make a long and sad story short, John Rode (Kid Villian) eventually got into serious hard drugs and he fuckin' overdosed on heroin and died in his mid 30s. He can be heard on the song "Dog Beats" as the drive through window guy, and he can also be heard on the song "Ghetto Zone" as the bitching old man in the chorus. John Rode is also on the original song, "Wizard of the Hood" playing the role of the lion.

Joey's older brother John had several problems. At first, after he left the group, things were going somewhat OK for him. He had a girlfriend and he was working as a DJ at some clubs around Detroit. Plus he was making beats from time to time. He never released anything professionally but at least he was still involved in what he loved. John was who actually introduced me to rap. The first rap song he played for me was called "Roxanne Roxanne" by a fresh group called U.T.F.O. Years later he introduced me to "Freaky Tales" by Too $hort. It was even John that first played me Eazy E, and N.W.A. I will never forget hearing Eazy E's high pitched voice for the first time. And the shit he was saying in his raps was so fresh and funny. I'd never heard anything that sounded like that before. The closest to it was The Beastie Boys album "Licensed To Ill" and John put me up on that too. I remember John and Joey went to see the Beastie Boys on the Licensed To Ill tour. I was so, SO fuckin' jealous that I was actually mad. John was my best friend from the 6th Grade all the way until I was 19. We went from being little kids, through all of those super impressionable years of becoming a teenager and then becoming young adults, we went through all of that together as best friends. Those are the years you spend discovering who you are, and what crowd you fall into and what music you like. We were even discovering girls for the first time together. Those years mean so much in a ninja’s life. They define so much about you and who you are for the rest of your life. John was my best friend during this special time. It was even in my bedroom that John got some neden for the first time in his life from the girl who lived down the street from me. John was always the smart one of our crew. He always was the one who got the decent grades and he always knew how to spell shit right. Or do a math problem. And again, I was always so impressed about how much him and Joey knew about music. Even rock bands like Deep Purple and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. I was hearing those names for the first time in my life.

John always knew how to hook up a car stereo or a turntable. Later in life when we became crooks, he always knew what car stereos were fresh and which ones weren’t worth shit. He knew about all that shit. Of course he was the first one to get his license and he would drive everywhere. He would borrow his stepdad's jeep. We would take the top down off that bitch and bounce that fuckin' thing everywhere, man. We had a big crew in our teenage years. Noel Simington, John Rode, John Klein, Lacey Morris, Rudy, me, Joey and John all piled into the jeep bumpin' NWA and Awesome Dre. I never drank or even swore back then, but then when my brother Rob went into the Army, suddenly all bets were off for some reason. Suddenly I was the only one, who didn’t cuss, or drink and so after about a year of that I was like "Fuck This" and I just started swearin up a storm. But I never drank much. I drank, but those guys drank all the fuckin' time. I would get pissed at them for drinkin' so much. I would be like "Come on, man, we just fuckin' drank yesterday man! What the fuck, man! Two days in a row, that's fuckin' stupid, man!" I bitched about drinkin' so much that they started to ditch me. Man, that would hurt. I dropped outta school long before those guys did and I would find out they all skipped school and never picked me up because they would all go drinkin' someplace and they didn't want me around. Fuck I hated that shit. We would go all the way out to Milford or Melvindale, MI in the jeep chasin' bitches. Man, I loved those times. I practically lived over at John and Joey's house. Joey was my boy, but back then John was my ace in the hole. We were so close, we shared the same dreams -- first to be wrestlers and then to be rappers. I was over there constantly. We would sit upstairs in John and Joey's bedroom and just spin albums. Joey would scratch and we'd all listen. Sometimes at night we would cut the lights out and play D-Roz or Danny "K"AE tapes for hours. They were two rappers that were so unbelievably fuckin' incredibly fuckin' amazingly terrible that it was awesome. I can't explain it but we fuckin' LOOOOOVED to listen to their music. It just relaxed us and put us in a great mood. Their music for some strange reason was like drugs to us. Both D-Roz and Danny "K"AE were local from Detroit and we used to dream about how great it would be to hang out with them. I'm pretty sure some of Danny "K"AE's shit is on You Tube but D-Roz fuckin' vanished from the earth long before You Tube. But holy shit did we love there shit, man. The cool thing is, last year J-Webb actually contacted Danny "K"AE who now lives in Alaska (ALASKA!) and we brought him to the Gathering to perform! Me and Joey were fuckin' front row for his show, just watching in awe at the magical spectacle. It was him. It was actually him performing the great music. Songs that only he could write like "Track and Field", "After School Snack Attack", and "The Goverment's Responsible." I'm not exaggerating AT ALL when I tell you that standing next to Joey and watching Danny "K"AE perform in person, front row, at the Gathering was easily one of the best times of my entire fuckin' life man. It's just too fuckin' bad that John wasn’t there with us to enjoy the greatness of The "K"AE. We did film it, though, and that DVD is one of my absolute greatest possessions. Some ninjas in the crowd were just confused by what they we're witnessing and most weren’t really paying attention, but there was one ninja, I'll never forget him. He was totally gettin' live, and rockin' out. He got it. He fully understood the magic of what makes Danny "K"AE so incredibly fuckin' awesome. Maybe we will bring Danny "K"AE back for Gathering 17 because it's, well you know, Gathering 17 and all!

Anyway, John was a more than a great friend and he played a very important role in my life for a very long and special time. Back then our crew were so close to each other that we considered each other sellouts if you had a girlfriend. John always had a job too. He was always the responsible one working all the time. He just really had his head screwed on right tight while the rest of our crew was more like me ... dumbasses. Ha!

Once we began ICP though, it became a straight up obsession for us. When John Rode left it sucked ,yeah, but when John Utsler quit I was devastated. I was crushed. We all were. Me and Alex just stared at Joey wondering what his next move was going to be. Was he gonna leave now? We had John's raps all over the album and now he was gone. Besides that I'd just lost my best friend. I always say that was the fuckin' night Joey became a man in his life. For real. The night he made a strong, enormous decision for himself and it paid off. My respect for Joey suddenly intensified to the point of no return. But I felt demolished at the same time over the fact that John could just up and walk out on us like that. It was so shocking, it truly terrified me that a person could do that to a friend. How could somebody be that cold hearted? We didn't have money to redo the entire album and take him off it. This was years before Pro Tools where you can just upload the song and pick up right where you left off. This was back when running a mix to tape was incredibly difficult. Everybody had several jobs to do when we would run a mix. Mike would have to remember to turn down the claps at a certain point and turn up a certain vocal. I would have to turn down the guitars during the second chorus and make sure the high hats were loud enough at the ending and Joey would have similar responsibilities. We would all have to work together just to get a mix on tape. If anybody fucked something up even the slightest, we would all have to do it again. The shit would take forever. So to remix the entire album replacing John's vocal parts was mission impossible. So we decided to just release the album as it was, with him on there. He is now forever cemented in Juggalo history because his vocals are all over the 1st Joker's Card "Carnival of Carnage".

The two Johns went one way in life and me and Joey went completely in another direction. Joey saw John around his mom's house from time to time but as the years went by, he saw less and less of him. I was constantly asking Joey if he saw John and if he said anything about us. Whenever the two spoke, which was rarely, John would never speak about leaving the group. Ever. I was obsessed with knowing how he felt about it, because it had hurt me so bad when he walked out. In a lot of ways it was like losing a girlfriend that you deeply loved and knowing somebody who knows her now. You would be asking, "What did she say about me? What did she say?" I wanted to know how he felt, and when we started to do better and better, I ,of course, wondered if he regretted his decision.

One year it was crazy as hell though, because we actually decided to have Joey ask John to appear at the 3rd Annual Gathering in Peoria as a mystery guest. Surprisingly, he showed up for a question and answer session. It was very weird. I hadn’t seen my former best friend in years. We didn't say much of anything at all to each other. I think John was overwhelmed and extremely nervous about all the Juggalos asking him so many questions and snapping pictures of him. He barely spoke. He let Joey answer it all. He had never in his life been a part of anything like that and it completely freaked him the fuck out. He had no idea people were that interested in him like that. He wouldn't come back after that year. Think about it. The answers to all the questions they were asking him had to of all been let downs.

Anyway, he and John Rode continued on down that dark path getting further and further into hard drugs. A few years later, Joey and I decided to try and help John. We hired him at our warehouse but that only lasted a few weeks. He just kept fuckin' up. Over and over again. Sometimes I would go in the back to try and talk to him but it was always the same. He would just dodge my questions and I could see how uncomfortable he was so I'd just leave him alone. He would come in super late and we'd find him asleep in the warehouse. It just didn't work out at all and after a while we had no choice to let him go. It's true what they say -- you can't help somebody who doesn’t want to help themselves.

Things only continued to spiral downhill for John. Around the same time that John Rode died, (Kid Villain) something terrible happened to John. Joey told us that they found him lying out front of his house in a puddle of blood. Nobody knows exactly what went down, even he says he doesn’t remember. I guess they pretty much cracked a hole in his skull, Doctors had to remove a piece of his skull because his brain was swelling up so badly that it couldn't fit in his head and he had to wear a soft helmet for a year so. The incident really did some serious damage and he and was never really the same again after that. Joey thinks it was possibly some kind of drug deal gone bad, like maybe John tried to fuck over some bad dudes or something. But nevertheless, John still kept on using and drinking.

The years continued to roll on by and John just kept on moving into and getting kicked out of group homes, the Salvation Army, convalescent homes and shitty places like that. At one point he was even living in an abandoned house. Joey's younger brother Mike called and said "We gotta do something about John and get him out of there" so Joey went over there and found John laying on an old mattress in the back room and described him as skin and bones. So he helped him up and into his car and took him home. John stayed with Joey for a while as Joey fed him and nursed him back to somewhat decent health until he caught John drinking again and stealing from him. Joey had no choice but to drop John off again at another Salvation Army. Things were OK for a while until one night about 8 years ago, John had a seizure and fell out of his bed and hit his already wounded head on the floor. From that day on John damaged the nerves his brain and could no longer walk. Even while confined to a wheelchair, John continued to use basically any drug he could get his hands on.

I saw John at Joey's wedding about 2 years ago. He was smoking a cigarette outside on the side of the chapel. He was barely recognizable. His skin tone looked almost grey to me and there were large black circles around his eyes. I thought about not saying anything to him at all, but instead I walked up to him and said a friendly "What up, John?", and introduced my wife Michelle. He just muttered out a simple "hey" avoiding eye contact with me, and instantly rolled himself in the other direction.

As the beautiful ceremony was being conducted down by the water, way up behind everybody, sitting at the top of the hill where you couldn't hear anything being said at the wedding, there was John sitting silently by himself. He wore a blank expression on his face, seemingly staring off at nothing. He was definitely sitting there, present at the wedding, but the John we all knew and loved, and my former best friend in the world, had check out of there a long time ago.

And on that bright, sunny, summer day, parked up on that green ass grass, next to that beautiful white chapel, was the very last time most of us would ever see John alive again.

Joey's Uncle Ed and his younger brother Mike would sometimes come by whereever he was staying at the time, to check up on him and drop off a bag of groceries and maybe a $20 spot for whatever as John continued to live his life at rock bottom, until the morning of November 20th, when he was found dead in his bed, living at a group home in Highland Park, Michigan. The autopsy report won’t be back for another two months or so, but it's believed that he had a major seizure in his sleep. An empty pint of vodka was found stashed under his bed. a clear violation of the rules at the group home he was living at.

At the memorial, Joey's Uncle Ed told me and my wife that about three months ago, he went to visit John and he was playing a CD of "Carnival of Carnage" and as his Uncle was talking about something, John interrupted him and said "Wait, listen... This part is me... that's me rappin' right there"

Had John Utsler only known that he is forever in time, a true, certified and authentic, Juggalo legend. Forever solidified in all of space, as one of the original three MC's of the legendary 1st Joker's Card, "Carnival of Carnage." The album which started it all. The red and blue engine which pulls a train a million miles long. The first chapter in a series of 6 chapters that mean so very much, to the lives of so very many, special people of this world, and even beyond. John probably never even realized how many thousands and thousands, how many millions and millions of ninjas around the world, knew every word to every one of his verses, to every one of the songs he ever made. He most likely never knew that during every minute, of every day, there is at least one human being out there in the world, rapping along to his lyrics as the CD plays. There is at least one, and that's guaranteed, but most likely there are hundreds, at any given time, 24 hours a day, all the way around the clock, as "Carnival Of Carnage" has sold or been burned or dubbed or copied, or bootlegged millions and millions of times, since it was first released way back in 1991. The 1st Joker's Card that started it all. John Utsler probably never even realized he was an absolute Hall of Famer in our Juggalo Universe. John Kickjazz is a legendary superstar without a doubt. He's every bit of a hero to millions and millions of wonderful and important, human lives around the world and around the entire universe as well.

He is eternally cemented in greatness for his work on "The Basement Tapes" that are true and iconic hidden treasures that remain somewhere out there, in this world sought after by collectors and traders around the globe. And his work on "Dog Beats," the first ever authentic professional recording of Inner City Posse remains timeless and forever new as somebody somewhere retraces the Dark Carnival's fantastic voyage back to its inception every day that goes by. John Kickjazz's voice appears on songs that are sung by millions of fascinating and intelligent people across the planet. John's witty and astonishingly entertaining lyrics are respected, repeated, memorized and idolized by men and women of all races and religions who lead incredible, fantastic lives. And of course "Carnival of Carnage" from The Insane Clown Posse remains a treasure trove of vast knowledge and secrets that can not only unlock time but can also allow one a peek in through the back stage doors of the Nethervoid. The 1st Joker's Card has gathered the attention of so many millions of lonely, misunderstood and frustrated souls and eventually turned their fates around and forever blessed them with the rich and priceless gifts of family, love and eternal salvation. It was John Utsler's own works of art that helped lead these people to discover one another as well as their own faith in a higher power. Today these people form this planet's last genuine, authentic subculture... unlike anything before its kind. It was John Utsler's own youthful, karma shine that helped attract, draw forth and bring together the ultra-important, mystical and magnificent lives of those who call themselves... The Juggalos.

You, John Utsler, are a savior. You, John Kickjazz, are a champion of free speech. Your art and talent, your ideas and skill, your style and charisma has helped to save something more precious than anything known to man... human lives. Thank you, brother.

I look forward to when we will reform the original group of all 4 members once again. The original ICP, together behind the golden gates of Shangri-La!

21 Nov2015

Direct from Violent J.....it's the Hatchet Herald!

What up yall, Big Violent J up in this byatch fresh off the Marvelous Missing Link Tour. That shit was maaaaad fun. It really was. I liked that show a lot. The set was crazy fresh and easy to do. It was easy to keep my breath.

The only thing that was kind of weak is the first song was Explosions off of the Marvelous Missing Link "Lost" album, and only a few people knew it. So right when we hit the stage and everybody was crazy hype, we'd launch into that song and it was like somebody pulled the plug out. Everybody was just standing there lookin at us like "What the fuck is this shit?" That's the way it always is with the new shit though. Our whole career, on every tour we've ever done, every time we do the new shit, everybody just kind of stops gettin' hype and stares at us. The new shit don't get accepted in with the classics until it's not new anymore. For example, take the song "Bazooka Joey" off the Death Pop album. When we performed that song on the Death Pop Tour the crowd suddenly acted like they were watchin' a movie. But when we did it on this tour everybody was hype as fuck. For some reason, it's gotta be old before it's fresh. But after we opened up with "Explosions" we jumped right into good old "Chicken Huntin" and got that bitch crackin! The only new song they seemed to get hype for was "Juggalo Party". I Guess it's the way that chorus comes in, it's just too hype to resist, even if you don’t know it.

We had some crazy ass shows out there, like Worchester, Mass. We used to always sell that place out. Every show it was always packed, but for some reason it aint like that anymore. We walked out on stage and seen that empty ass balcony and feeble sized crowd on the floor and it was like the needle skipped in my head. Where the fuck did everybody go? I'm so used to seeing that bitch packed! I don't know what happened from that point, but suddenly, for some strange reason we just started havin' the most fun, craziest fuckin' concert on the whole tour. We were squirtin' Faygo into each other's faces while we were tryna rap. I was laughin' so hard I couldn't even do my lyrics. We kept goosin' each other's ass and we were dumpin' full Faygos on the bouncer's heads. We were makin' up fucked up, funny ass lyrics as we went, and when Young Wicked came out to sing his part he was all serious and me and Joey just walked up behind him and squeezed a 2 liter into his face. Mad funny shit.

Other shows were fuckin' sold out to the damn rafters son! Jam packed with crazy ass Juggalos. They were climbin' up on the stage grabbin' arm loads of Faygo and jumpin' back off into the sea of madness. Our clowns were havin' a crazy hard time tryna keep the Faygo barrels full. It was a truly awesome tour. Twiztid was on the road at the same time and we kept havin' the whole crowd send them live ass shout outs and we'd send it to 'em. It was good times man, good times.

Speakin' of good times, we keep 'em coming! And for a good ass cause too. This time we're about to hook up St. John's Children's Hospital of Illinois with some fat bank. Come on yall it's time to come together! We got some sick little kids that need some clown love. We need all you Juggalos to ante up some duckets. Come up with the cheese please. You know that money you got chillin' in your sock? Come up with it bitch. It's time to give a fuck again. If you’re a Juggalo and you don't crack that piggy bank open, karma’s gonna crack that head open. These sick ass little kids seriously need some fuckin' cheddar and it's time they got PAID. Here's how it's going down... Psychopathic Records, TrueJuggaloFamily.com, FaygoLovers.net, JuggaloNews.com and Juggalo Championship Wrestling, Proudly Present: "The RasselRap Charity Tour"!!! Featuring fresh JCW wrestling action and the one and only Young Wicked!!!

Now this aint your everyday average tour my dude, this shit is karma driven, it's for a sweet ass cause and it's MASSIVELY FRESH. As I tell you about this tour, every time I say "CHING!", that's the sound of sick ass kids gettin' paid and feelin' better... OK? Now, look here ninja, the first thing you need to do is pull your drawers outta your butt crack and buy yourself a ticket to the RasselRap Charity Show "CHING!" Come to which ever one of the 6 shows is closest to you. Even if you and your homies gotta drive 6 hours to the show, it's fuckin' worth it.

Once you get to the show, you simply approach the ninja at the merchandise table. At the merch table, there will be 3 different fresh options for you to choose from. 3 different ways of how you can be awesome and feel great about yourself this holiday season.

You can choose to become an "Elf" by choosing "Option 1". For a measly $20 bucks "CHING!" Elfs get to take home and forever own an exclusive, ultra special, high quality "I'm The Shit" T Shirt! This colorful, priceless, bullet proof, water resistant, high end T Shirt is extremely fashionable and forever in style. It's made of the rarest, richest fabrics known to man. Grown and sewn together by the actual, living, 2 inch silk worms of China's Pu Pu Forrest. And then hand stitched, pressed and primped by 40 bald headed ninjas who work 22 hours a day in a tiny hut located on the very top of Mount Mukaka. In a custom, hand crafted font, it reads "I'm The Shit" across your (muscular or voluptuous) chest, above a proud, ruby red, hand painted Hatchet Man logo. On the back, across your (broad or sexy) shoulders, as you walk away it schools the world with this fresh quote... "I Gave to the sick 'cause I'm not a dick". This T-shirt could easily retail for something close to 4 or 5 hundred bucks on the black market. Believe me ninjas and ninjettes, you want this shirt! Not only does the 20 spot you dropped go to the sick and needy kids, but you get to look extra pimpin' and flossy in this, one of a kind, stylish T shirt! And for you fat slobs, we hear your demands! Starting with this crazy fresh T Shirt, a lot of Psychopathic merch will now be available in fat kid friendly sizes, all the way up to 5X! If you’re fatter than that, you’re just gonna have to try stretching it out or something.

Option 2 is even fresher! You can become a "Snowman" but it's gonna cost you a smooth $50 spot "CHING!" Not only does a Snowman get the uber fresh "I'm The Shit" T shirt, but you also get an extra special, magical wrist band! This special wrist band allows you the fuckin' incredibly fun privilege of being a "Lumberjack" during JCW's Lumberjack Match! Here's how it works... All the Lumberjacks surround the ring, and every time one of the 2 wrestlers either tries to escape the ring, or is thrown out of the ring, the Lumberjacks get to beat the shit out of him and throw him back in the ring! It don't matter if it's the good guy wrestler or the bad guy wrestler, who ever comes out of that ring gets a beatin' BY YOU! You can kick him, punch him, pull his hair, slap him, twist his fuckin' nipple, goose his ass, do whatever you feel like doing to him every time he comes out of that fuckin' ring. And the best part? The wrestlers aint allowed to hit you back! Now tell me that don't sound like fun! And if you want to, you can even wear your fresh ass "I'm The Shit" T shirt while your Lumberjackin, cause don’t forget, Snowmen get that too!

And the 3rd option is absolutely the biggest and the best of the 3! For you ninjas out there who really care about helpin' the sick kids and have an extra big ass heart, for a big Benny Frank $100 spot, you can be a Big Baller Santa Clause! Needless to say Big Baller Santa's run shit! Not only do they get the (chick or dick pullin') "I'm The Shit" T shirt, and the magical "Lumberjack Match" wrist band, but they also get a soopa fresh, collector's edition laminate pass! A Pass to what you ask? A Pass that allows you to attend the ultimate Meet N Greet after the show! You'll get to hang out in person with ICP, Young Wicked, DJ Clay, The Weedman, 2 Tuff Tony, The Rude Boy, The Ring Rydas and basically anybody on the entire tour! Just think, you can have your "I'm The Shit" T shirt tagged up by everybody! Snap a selfie with the entire tour! Ask anybody there, anything you've ever wanted to know! And don’t forget the coolest and most important thing Big Baller Santa's get to do... Hook up the sick kids in a big ass way!!!

This holiday season, because Psychopathic Records, TrueJuggaloFamily.com, Faygoluvers.net, and JuggaloNews.com and most important of all, YOU THE JUGGALOS are so incredibly fuckin' dope, all profits from the entire tour, including ticket sales, merch sales, and Elf, Snowman, and Big Baller Santa sales all go straight to St. John's Children's Hospital of Illinois! CHING! CHING! CHING! I think it goes without saying ninjas, but do not miss The RasselRap Charity Tour

At the end of the RasselRap Charity Tour when we're all feelin' extra fuckin' great about ourselves, we're lookin' to celebrate right? Well I know the spot yall... The ultimate fuckin' spot... The hottest holiday spot on the planet! I could only be talkin' about the now legendary and infamous, biggest, dopest, fattest, throw down, slam jam, blow out, Juggalo party, bash of the year... the perfect place to pull our wagons into is the parking lot of The Crofoot in Pontiac, Michigan on December 18th for Psychopathic Record's official BIG BALLAS XMAS PARTY!!!

Don't get shut out! Tickets are on sale right now, and all the proceeds from this years Big Balla's Xmas Party go straight to... our pockets! HAHAHAA! Well somebody's gotta pay for all the fresh ass entertainment jumpin' off this year right? I'm talkin about ninjas like the ultimate party host Mike Busey and the Busey Beauties, The Wolfpac and The Wolfpac Girls, and this year JCW Presents Exotic Ladies of Wrestling. There will be so many fuckin' hotties in the house that UpChuck the Clown is already standing in line!

Anybody who's ever seen Mike Busey and Busey's Beauties hold it down at the Gathering already knows what kind of jump off this is gonna be. Plus the Wolfpac girls runnin around sittin' on ninjas faces. Not to mention all the Exotic Ladies of Wrestling flyin' around puttin' random ninjas in freaky wrestling holds. We're turnin' this bitch into a giant tittie bar!

Also you can expect to witness an awesome and riveting set from DJ Clay who somehow manages to get fresher and doper every fuckin' year.

And this year all you rappers, MC's, and freestyle flow masters, we're callin' you out! So you say you can flow huh? Well than tuff guy, bring your music and step on up to the stage for J Webb's 1st Annual MC BATTLE! Yes! That's right! Here's your chance to be seen! Step on up in front of everybody at Psychopathic Records and all of the Juggalos in the house and show us what you got pimpin!

And for you creative and stylish mother fuckas out there, don’t forget about Santa's Hoe Hoe Hoe Costume Contest, where you could win this year's grand prize...A Mystery Box! It could be anything! It could be jerseys, it could be CD's. It could be a pair of keys to a new car! It might even be a half eaten jar of peanut butter! Or perhaps even the grandest prize of them all... a pair of tickets to Gathering 17!!! Damn, did you feel the floor rumble when I said that? I swear the building just shook when I typed that. Just SAYING Gathering 17 is epic, WOAH it shook again!!! I'm knockin' gold plaques off the walls in this bitch! There's only one way to find out what's in that mystery box, and that is to win Santa's Hoe Hoe Hoe Costume Contest! So come to the party dressed up in your freshest, most decked out, holiday get ups. Come dressed up as a sexy elf... Maybe an evil Santa... or how about Jack Frost with a pair of frozen balls? I don’t know, you think of somethin!

And at the end of the night, when all you ninjas are stumblin' drunk and all you ninjettes are plastered, walkin' around with one tittie hangin' out bouncin' around, just then, the lights cut out... Shaggy and myself suddenly appear on the stage... Your hearts begin pounding in your chest as we introduce the Party's main attraction... The hottest name on Psychopathic Records since the incarnation of the Icon's themselves, Twiztid... From the Juggalo Clown Town of Denver, Co.... The one and only, YOUNG WICKED! He slowly walks out on to the stage to a thunderous roar from the Juggalos ... and then trips over his mic cord and busts his ass. BUT, thats OK because were all Juggalos!

BOOM! Big Baller's is tradition for us. It's ancient. We been doing this every year for like 20 years now. Straight up legendary. Some of you out there reading this might have only heard about Big Ballers but have never actually been to one. Maybe this is the year you and your friends actually go! Maybe not, maybe you aint got the fuckin' money to drive all that way to Pontiac, Mi. for a fuckin' party. Maybe you gotta fuckin' work. I feel ya. I hear ya. We will party and honor you ninjas who can’t make it. We will drink to you. You will be there in spirit and we will do it up for you.

Speaking of coming together from all over the country, there is a newer tradition that is much bigger than Ballers, much more popular to Juggalos. Much more heavy and epic. I'm talkin' about Juggalo Day which has kind of morphed itself into Juggalo Weekend. I know you've all already heard about the next Juggalo day because straight up 75 percent of the tickets are already sold out!

The first night, February 19th, at the seriously legendary Detroit venue St. Andrew's Hall, we're gonna have a full card of JCW action earlier in the afternoon. Then the ring comes down and the concert starts. Some extra hot, uncut, A 1 dope ass names are gonna be there. Names that we will release at a later time closer to the event. But because you've been good little serial killers, I'll give up one of the names right now for ya. All the way from Compton, California, performing his father's iconic, gangsta rap bangerz, The son of Easy E... Lil E! And get this, joining him on stage, on the tables, from my favorite rap group of all time, the world's most dangerous group, N.W.A, The one and only DJ Yella! I know some of you older ninjas like me are super excited to hear that Lil E. and DJ Yella are gonna be there, but if that's not really your cup of Faygo, worry not, there will be plenty more names added to the line up. But Friday night, February 19th's main attraction is the super group, Da Mafia Six and ICP together, The Killjoy Club! Performing their first ever concert!

The very next night, Saturday February 20th at Harpo's Concert Hall in Detroit is another seriously fat line up that you will be hearing about soon, but the main event of Juggalo Weekend, the shit everybody in the Juggalo underground is talking about. I'm talkin' about the God Father’s of Detroit Wicked Shit reuniting for the first time in many, many years, Esham The Unholy and Insane Clown Posse. This year Shaggy and myself will be performing the 2nd Joker's Card in it's entirety, The Ringmaster!

There you have it! The main events of Juggalo Weekend 2016, The Killjoy Club, Esham and ICP. It don’t get no fatter than that. Tickets are still available, but I doubt they will be for long!

I know there was talk about Juggalo Weekend coming to Worcester or maybe Dallas this time, but with Esham and ICP doing a show together again for the first time in all these years, it just had to be in Detroit, murderous!

I gotta get the fuck outta here, my ass is numb from sittin' here typing for so long. I seriously doubt anybody's still here reading this, but incase you are let me remind you that the fuckin' sweet, sweet ass 20th Anniversary Edition of the Riddlebox album is available now!!! The packaging and the booklet for that mother fucker are un fuckin' believable thanks to Psychopathic Record's product manager and publicist J Webb, who wrote that shit and interviewed us for it. He put some serious time into that bad boy.

It also comes with a bonus CD that's got 17 tracks worth of Riddlebox Oddities. It's got fresh instrumentals, alternate mixes and other dope nuggets of flavor all recorded during the Riddlebox era. Some shit on this CD you might of heard before and some shit you definitely haven’t. We went diggin' through the vaults at Mike E. Clark's house and uncovered some dope shit for you ninjas that love that Riddlebox sound.

Also, the main album has been digitally remastered and the sound is bombastic. You can get this sweet ass, deluxe edition of Riddlebox in stores or if you cant find it anywhere you can always get it at the new and much improved Juggalo superstore HatchetGear.com.

Before I go I just wanna say this. When we were out on tour doing the meet and greets we were talkin' to ninjas about Gathering 17 (ohh fuck) and some ninjas were like "I've always really, really wanted to go to a Gathering but I never have". I'm just gonna say it... Any ninja who has always seriously wanted to go to a Gathering but never has, you get a staleness point homie. Why you ask? Because what the fuck are you ninjas waitin' for? I know that shit is expensive, so start saving up now! Mow some fuckin' lawns for 20 bucks. Shovel some snow. How can you let something so fresh, something you truly want to be a part of pass you by every year? I just dont fuckin' get it. If you truly seriously want to be a part of ANYTHING in this life and you’re not doing it, you’re just playin' yourself out.

Ask yourself this... what did you do while the Gathering was going on last year? You don’t remember because you didn’t do SHIT. For you, those were some worthless ass, meaningless days. But if you would’ve gotten up off your ass and actually went to the Gathering, you would have those memories to cherish forever. You would have those experience points to hold on to for life. Not only that, but you never know who you might have met there or how it might have affected your life. But instead you didn’t do SHIIIIIIT. So you might have saved some money. So what? Where's that money now? GONE! You ended up blowin' it anyway. And you could have actually experienced the Gathering!

Are you one of those lame ass ninjas in your 20s and you’ve never even left your own state? What the fuck is your deal man? Why are you lettin' your life waste away? Do shit for yourself. Take that body of yours, that vessel you control, that sack of meat and bones you live inside of, and do some fresh shit with it! I'm not just talkin' about the fuckin' Gathering ok? I'm talkin' about anything you love and want to be a part of.

Are you one of those fuck tards that has been in an internet relationship with somebody for 4 or 5 years now and you've never actually even met that person? Your a dick wipe. You aint no Juggalo man, Juggalos are adventurous. Juggalos make shit happen for themselves. Juggalos actually do the shit they want to. They don’t just sit around dreamin' about shit all their lives. Make shit happen for yourself.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a wrestler. I did it by the time I was 19. I was wrestling all over the midwest. And when I was too young to actually be a real wrestler, I was a backyard wrestler to the highest degree. We had crowds in our backyard watchin' us, bitch. We passed out flyers and gave out free hot dogs so that people would come watch us. I worked to get mine! Whatever I wanted to do in this life I fuckin' did it. I Still do it. I believe in living your life to the maximum. Max that shit out to the farthest of your capabilities. If you’re 27 and have always wanted to go to the Gathering but never have, all I gotta say to you is whatever dude.

OK I'm outta this bitch. Thanks to everybody who came out to the Marvelous Missing Link Tour. Thanks to all the ninjas who bought The Marvelous Missing Link Lost and Found! I'll be back next time, Peace and much clown love!

Shout out to all my ninjas coming to see ICP, Twiztid, and Blaze perform The Wizard of the Hood live, in it's entirety, at Gathering 17! WOOOAAHH

Max that shit out!

07 Nov2015

Big Balla Xmas Party Goes Down Friday, Dec. 18 at The Crofoot!

Fuck the visions of sugar plums and hanging stockings with care! We want holiday visions of Juggalo family members all partying and celebrating together!

On Friday, December 18 at The Crofoot in Pontiac, be there for the annual Big Balla Xmas Party, featuring an evening of fun, flavor, and fucking freshness! There will be music courtesy of both live bands and DJs, wrestling, contests, and much more! We’ll update you on more specifics as they are finalized but just know that tickets go on sale next Friday, November 13 at 10 a.m. EST. Doors will be at 7 p.m. and tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. More details soon!

07 Nov2015

Insane Clown Posse presents… JCW’s RassleRap Charity Tour!

Get into the holiday spirit with the Insane Clown Posse, the fearsome grapplers of Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW), and the musical flavor of Young Wicked and Academy Award-winning hip hop legend/Three 6 Mafia co-founder DJ Paul … and enjoy a devastating evening of entertainment while helping others!

JCW’s RassleRap Charity Tour raises funds for St. John’s Children’s Hospital and in exchange for your donation to the organization, which helps sick and chronically ill children and their families, you will get hooked up with some fresh flavor that you will ONLY get by attending a show on the RassleRap St. Johns’s Children’s Hospital Charity Tour. There are levels to choose from:

$20 -- Level 1: Elf

In exchange for a $20 cash donation, YOU WILL GET AN EXCLUSIVE, ULTRA-LIMITED, SHIRT THAT WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE ON THIS TOUR! You won’t be able to get this shirt on Hatchet Gear or any of that shit (well, actually, you can preorder the shirt on Hatchet Gear but you’ll have to pick it up LIVE IN PERSON at the actual show).

$50 – Level 2: Snowman

For a $50 cash donation you will receive the fresh ass limited edition T-shirt, an exclusive JCW Wristband, and GET TO BE A LUMBERJACK IN A JCW LUMBERJACK MATCH! For the uninitiated, a lumberjack match is where the outside of the ring is surrounded by ninjas who do not let anyone in the ring escape. If a wrestler gets thrown outside the ring, the lumberjacks THROW THEIR STALE ASS BACK IN THE RING FOR A FURTHER BEATDOWN! This is your ticket to actually being a part of the blood-crazed, bone-crushing JCW action!

$100 – Level 3: Big Balla Santa Claus

For those extra generous big balla Juggalos who make a donation of $100 or more, they will receive the rare exclusive shirt, the exclusive JCW Wristband, be a lumberjack in the Lumberjack Match, and AND A SPECIAL VIP LAMINATE THAT GETS YOU AN EXCLUSIVE ONE-ON-ONE MEET-N-GREET WITH EVERYONE ON THE TOUR! Yup, everyone! Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Sugar Slam, JCW World Heavyweight Champion Weedman, Kevin Gill, and Young Wicked!

Each evening will be hosted by the Wicked Clowns themselves—Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope—and feature plenty of unexpected surprises. Will DJ Paul and Young Wicked join forces and do a Killjoy Club set? Will Weedman successfully defend his title against Kongo Kong? The only way to find out—and get one of the most collectable pieces of merch ever released by Psychopathic—is to attend JCW’s RassleRap Charity Tour , starting in late November!

You don’t need to be told how off the fucking chain this year’s Hallowicked is going to be…but we’ll remind you anyway. Performing at this year’s Hallowicked concert at the Fillmore in downtown Detroit Murderous will be Flint-based ninjas King 810, those “slammin’” boys from Onyx (see what I did there?) and fellow Missing Link tour road dogs, POD! After that, we adjourn to St. Andrew’s Hall for the devastating Hallowicked Afterparty, featuring performances from DJ Paul, Dope DOD, and Anybody Killa! In between music performances will be the blood-soaked sports entertainment of JCW!! Our homie Kevin Gill just emailed over some dope flyers showing each devastating match that will be taking place that night! Check em out below! And get your tickets to the Hallowicked afterparty here: http://www.livenation.com/artists/152514/hallowicked-after-party

07 Nov2015

Tickets for Juggalo Weekend 2016 ON SALE NOW and GOING FAST!

This is IT, mothafackos! Tickets for Juggalo Weekend 2016 are NOW on sale and as of this posting, BOTH SHOWS ARE HALFWAY SOLD OUT! Here’s the info. Soak it all in and then get to Ticket Web to get your tix before they sell out! Here’s the two days of flavor we’ve got in store for YOU!

On Friday February 19th at St. Andrew's Hall in Downtown Detroitat 4pm ... We begin the festivities with a full card of JCW Wrestling. Then the ring comes down and the main stage comes alivewith special surprise guests who will be revealed soon at insaneclownposse.com. Andthen … the main attraction of Night #1 ... For the 1st time ever...afull concert... from the one and only Psychopathic supergroup THE KILLJOY CLUB!

The next night, on Saturday Febuary 20th at the legendary Harpo's Concert Hallon the East Side of Detroit Murderous ... First you will witness performances from special surprise guests—name you absolutely will not fucking believe! And then…the main attraction … the reunion of Detroit’s kings of the Wicked Shit …ESHAM THE UNHOLY AND THE INSANE CLOWNPOSSE Live in concert! Witness Juggalo history as the Wicked Clowns perform the entirety of the almighty 2nd Joker’s Card … THE RINGMASTER!

Last Leg of the Marvelous Missing Link Tour is HERE!

Well, fam, we’re entering the last week of the nationwide Marvelous Missing Link Tour this week. It’s been one fuckin amazing journey and it’s been a pleasure seeing so many of you awesome ninjas along the way!

Reminder: Pre-order for Riddle Box 20th Anniversary Special Deluxe Edition On Sale Now at Hatchet Gear!

Well, fam, THIS IS IT! The definitive, remastered and dope-as-fuck ultimate reissue of the almighty 3rd Joker’s Card of the First Six is now available for pre-order on Hatchet Gear! It’s been a long road to get this album released and maybe we’ll do a Gathering seminar on it to tell the behind-the-scenes story but for now, fuck that! The 20th anniversary is now available for pre-order on Hatchet Gear. The custom-made two piece box—which has artwork all printed in gold and silver foil—includes a 2015 remaster of the original “Riddle Box” album…and is the absolute best sound quality available anywhere! Also included is a 28-page booklet featuring a new interview with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, where they discuss each individual track on the album! This interview unveils secrets about the Riddle Box that you never knew and is guaranteed to flip your clown wig! The biggest piece of flavor is the Riddle Box Oddities album, which includes ultra-rare outtakes, instrumentals, B-sides and other Riddle Box-era flavor. Most of this shit we totally forgot even EXISTED and it all came from deep within the caverns of Mike E. Clark’s vault!

Because of the complexity of the packaging, we’ve had to fuck with the release date on this a few times, but it looks like the official street date is going to be Friday, November 27…Black Friday!

If you preorder the Riddle Box 20th Anniversary Special Edition from Hatchet Gear, you can expect it to be shipped to you the week of November 23

Juggalos, this is the DEFINITIVE version of the album that basically made the Juggalo family explode across America and then the world. So go ahead…TURN THE CRANK!!

Bonus Flavor: A SNEAK PEEK AT THE EXCLUSIVE HALLOWICKED MERCH!

Everyone knows that we always have one-night-only exclusive merch for Hallowicked but this year, we figured you ninjas might appreciate a sneak peek at what will be burning up the merch stand next weekend at the Fillmore! Check out these exclusive new designs that will only be available at Hallowicked (we sell any leftovers on Hatchet Gear but there will be NO reprints so don’t take a chance on seeing any of this flavor on the webstore later!)

Look at this dope freshness!

24 Oct2015

ABK and Big Hoodoo To Embark On the Shapeshifter Tour This Fall!

If you’re looking for wicked autumn flavor, fuck that pumpkin spice latte, bitch! Check out ABK’s upcoming Shapeshifter Tour, kicking off on October 28 and running through the beginning of December! Currently booked dates have been posted in the tour section of Psychopathic Records and more dates and ticket links will be added soon. Peep the dope flyer here:

24 Oct2015

“Riddle Box 20th Anniversary Special Edition” Now Available For Pre-Order on Hatchet Gear!

Well, fam, THIS IS IT! The definitive, remastered and dope-as-fuck ultimate reissue of the almighty 3rd Joker’s Card of the First Six is now available for pre-order on Hatchet Gear! It’s been a long road to get this album released and maybe we’ll do a Gathering seminar on it to tell the behind-the-scenes story but for now, fuck that! The 20th anniversary is now available for pre-order on Hatchet Gear. The custom-made two piece box—which has artwork all printed in gold and silver foil—includes a 2015 remaster of the original “Riddle Box” album…and is the absolute best sound quality available anywhere! Also included is a 28-page booklet featuring a new interview with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, where they discuss each individual track on the album! This interview unveils secrets about the Riddle Box that you never knew and is guaranteed to flip your clown wig! The biggest piece of flavor is the Riddle Box Oddities album, which includes ultra-rare outtakes, instrumentals, B-sides and other Riddle Box-era flavor. Most of this shit we totally forgot even EXISTED and it all came from deep within the caverns of Mike E. Clark’s vault! Because of the complexity of the packaging, we’ve had to fuck with the release date on this a few times, but it looks like the official street date is going to be Friday, November 27…Black Friday!

If you preorder the Riddle Box 20th Anniversary Special Edition from Hatchet Gear, you can expect it to be shipped to you the week of November 23. We still don’t have an exact shipment date from our manufacturer but we DO know that we’re expecting our warehouse stock about a week before street date. So basically as soon as we get the shipment of albums in …. WE’RE SENDING RIGHT THE FUCK OUT TO YOU! We don’t know the exact day of the week but trust us…as soon as we get this flavor in...ITS BEING MAILED OUT ASAP. No fucking around!

Juggalos, this is the DEFINITIVE version of the album that basically made the Juggalo family explode across America and then the world. So go ahead…TURN THE CRANK!!

24 Oct2015

DJ Paul’s ‘Master of Evil’ Drops Next Friday!

Fuck man, next Friday is going to be epic! Not only is it the night before Hallowicked and the night ICP will be performing in Columbus but it’s also the day that our homie and colleague DJ Paul releases his first solo record on the Hatchet…MASTER OF EVIL! How evil is it? Put it this way…J-Webb was listening to the album when he got it back from our mastering guy and he said he seriously had some scary ass night terrors that night. Not a nightmare…night terror! So yeah, DJ Paul is NOT fucking around on this epic release! For one thing, Master of Evil is essentially a REUNION OF THE THREE 6 MAFIA! It’s got guest appearances from JUICY J and some of the final verses ever recorded by the late, great LORD INFAMOUS! There are also appearances on the album from superstar Yelawolf and the Duke of the Wicked himself…Violent J!

“Master of Evil” drops next Friday, October 30 everywhere and the iTunes version actually comes with TWO BONUS TRACKS not available on the CD! So get ready to tap-tap-tap on your iTunes app next week and download that flavor right to your phone!

And of course, you can hear selections from Master of Evil LIVE on any of the spectacular Marvelous Missing Link tour dates, as DJ Paul is performing on every stop.

Finally, check out this dope new video from Master of Evil, “You Know Where I’m Goin”:

09 Oct2015

DJ Paul To Replace Stitches On Marvelous Missing Link Tour

After missing the first few show dates, our homie Stitches has had to officially drop out of the Marvelous Missing Link tour due to family health issues. Stitches’ beautiful wife just gave birth to their son but he was born prematurely and is going through some serious health issues. So Stitches has left the tour to be with his family during this difficult time. And WE TOTALLY UNDERSTAND! He is doing the right thing and being a responsible husband and father and putting his family first.

But thankfully we have secured a DOPE replacement for Stitches…our homie DJ Paul, who’s debut solo album on Psychopathic Records “Master of Evil” drops on Friday, October 30. We’re psyched as fuck to have a legend like DJ Paul—co-founder of both Three 6 Mafia and Da Mafia 6ix as well as a member of the Psychopathic supergroup The Killjoy Club—joining us on our national trek. Plus, the camaraderie of having Paul on the road is going to be fuckin awesome because all of us are still in shock over the sudden passing of Da Mafia 6ix/Killjoy Club member Koopsta Knicca. Together we will get through this dark sad time and at least we can celebrate that Koopsta is now in Shangri-La getting mad angel neden.

09 Oct2015

Philly Show Turns Into Giant Wake For Juggalo Hero Cannibal!

We’ve been getting quite a bit of media attention during the Missing Link tour, including a dope cover story down in Savannah, GA about the Hardeeville date. But we were blown away by how much media attention our recent show in Philly received. ICP dedicated the concert to Philly native Thomas “Cannibal” Cottingham, who was murdered in Wilmington, Delaware last month while protecting a mother and child from a knife-wielding mugger.

Philly.com sent a journalist to the show and the resulting article is one of the freshest pieces about ICP and Juggalos in months. If you haven’t checked it out yet, peep it here: Read Full Story

18 Sep2015

“The Marvelous Missing Link (The Complete Saga)” Is Now Available EXCLUSIVELY on Hi-Grade Vinyl!

We know that lots of Juggalos out there are true audiophiles and music nerdies (you oughta see Shaggy 2 Dope’s vinyl collection). For those discerning music lovers, you are going to fuckin love the new 4-LP collection “The Marvelous Missing Link (The Complete Saga),” which contains both Marvelous Missing Link chapters in one devastating gatefold record set. Not only does the album have a dope ass design but the flavor has been pressed up on high fidelity 180-gram vinyl, ensuring that this is one of the best sounding releases Psychopathic has ever released! This baby sounds soooooooo fucking amazing and clear and you GOTTA listen to it with one of those big ass Mickey Mouse-ear headphones that your parents used to have back in the day. And as the sticker on the front says…PLAY IT LOUD, BITCH! “The Marvelous Missing Link (The Complete Saga) is now for sale at Hatchet Gear and will be available on the Missing Link tour. It will also be available in record stores in October (we’ll let you know when).

18 Sep2015

Check Out the Mad Freshness of the New Hatchet Gear!

As of this morning, Juggalos, we have put a fresh new coat of paint on Hatchet Gear and made some much needed improvements! We have a fucking TON OF DOPE NEW MERCHANDISE! And the site is easier to navigate! Plus…HATCHET GEAR IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT that ensures that all orders are filled and shipped promptly. In fact, we strive to ship orders out the same day or the next morning after we receive them. So go to www.hatchetgear.com and peep the fresh new flavor of the fully updated and improved one-stop-shop for all your Juggalo family needs! And while we’re on the subject, let’s look at a few dope new items, we have on the shop as of today…